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Lesbian activist Del Martin dies at 87 (AP)

Del Martin, left, places a ring on her partner Phyllis Lyon, right, in this June 16, 2008 file photo during their wedding ceremony officiated by San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom, center, at City Hall in San Francisco. Martin, a pioneering lesbian rights activist who married her lifelong partner on the first day same-sex couples could legally wed in California, has died. She was 87. Kate Kendell, executive director of the National Center for Lesbian Rights, says Martin died at a San Francisco hospital Wednesday morning two weeks after a broken arm exacerbated her existing health problems. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez, File)AP - Pioneering lesbian rights activist Del Martin, who married her longtime partner in June on the first day that California’s same-sex couples gained that right, died Wednesday. She was 87.

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